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It has been a long time coming, and I’m glad he’s finally speaking up publicly. This video was kind of weird. It’s a message to Planned Parenthood’s supporters, but it sounds like it’s to the people on the fence. Also, women are also orphans, only children, single, and childfree. Good work, Obama, now refine and repeat, and actually please address abortion! (Liss has a pretty good critique on Shakesville) Anyone who is interested can send a thank you note through on the Planned Parenthood website (with the option to personalize): https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=14516&s_src=ThanksObama_0312_c4_ty

Kiersten Marek

taylor16

SWNC

I am sick to death of all the rhetoric around family values when it’s very clear that the well-being of mothers and children are clearly less important than the ability of corporations to make money and the ability of specific religious institutions to impose their beliefs on the rest of us. If we really valued families, there would be universal health care for everybody under 18; maternity care would be covered under every insurance policy; women wouldn’t have to fight for the right to control their own fertility; and we would recognize that families come in all different forms.

helensprogeny

SWNC

And parental leave policies that realize that it’s inhumane to separate a six-week-old infant and her mother for 9-10 hours at a stretch every day and that fathers need to be present in their babies’ lives…..I’ve really got quite a list.

The one thing — if it can be boiled down to one thing — that will ensure President Obama’s re-election in November, is his humanity. To this man, his work is for all Americans, and he is doing his utmost to balance the needs of a nation with the needs of the individuals that make up that nation. He gets that; none of the Republican candidates do. They are all about individuality over unity, individual freedom over the needs of everyone, where it suits them. None of these GOP shills are interested in the concerns of an average American citizen, only with maintaining the grip of their party on power and padding their personal power.

It is President Obama’s commitment to America as a whole, that makes him my President.